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This is a blog for the family and friends of Collin Park. He will be serving a two year mission in the Sierra Leone Freetown Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, he left on January 24, 2013. While Collin is on his mission his Mom will be posting pictures and letters as she gets them, the content will be straight from Collin (unless otherwise noted) - spelling and punctuation will be corrected of course! Commentary and clarification may be added by his Mom as needed.UPDATE: Collin's mission was split in half! The Sierra Leone Mission included the country of Liberia when Collin first left. As of July 1, 2013, the mission was split along the border and the new mission created: the Liberia, Monrovia Mission. Collin will never see the country of Sierra Leone. He has been in Monrovia Liberia since he left the MTC in Ghana.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Because of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Liberia and Sierra Leone Missions were evacuated on August 4, 2014 and missionaries were reassigned to different missions. Collin was reassigned to the Salt Lake City Central Mission.

Tuesday, September 09, 2014

September 9. 2014

Well another week down. This wasn’t a great week, but there were a few good things happen.

We had a couple lessons on Wednesday. Esther is a woman who we met a long time ago and gave her a Book of Mormon, but never could catch her at home so it was really tough. Tuesday and Wednesday we had lessons with her and they were great. Tuesday we talked all about the book of Mormon with her and then gave her a Restoration pamphlet to read, we also gave her some places in the Book of Mormon to read. Wednesday we show up, she had read all of it and there were no questions, she totally understood everything. We didn’t really know what else to teach, so we basically just reviewed it with her to make sure she truly understood it, and she did. It was great.
Thursday we had a lot of appointments cancel on us, so it made for a long day... but we did see Sir Williams and read with him. We also met with Aiden who is a recent convert of a couple months. He’s a super smart 9 year old. We had a great lesson with him on being obedient to the commandments, praying every day, and studying his scriptures. He then asked us about Cain and Abel in Genesis... how smart is this kid??? That family is really fun too.

On Friday we had the Elders Quorum President help us out a little with a lesson with Sir Williams. We wanted him to be able to feel and recognize the Spirit more, so we took him to the Vine Street Building to have the lesson. It was a great lesson, the Spirit was really, really strong. That night we had a lesson with Gina and when we got there she was angry with something or someone, but we decided to go on with the lesson and by the end of the lesson she was fine and happy. It’s amazing what the Spirit can do during lessons. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a whole, it was good.

Saturday we went to a baptism with Sir. Baptisms are very different here than back in LIB. Here it was just for one person, in LIB, it could be for 5 or more people, but it was great. the Spirit was there and im pretty sure Sir felt it. The rest of the day was kind of boring, but our 'dinner appointment' or FM was with a native Mexican and we had homemade flour tortilla's that are AMAZING!!!! We need to go and ask her to cook some more for us, hahaha.

Fast Sunday was really good, the testimonies that were born were great, not a whole lot of stories or “thankamonies.” (On the first Sunday of every month we have “Fast Sunday.” That means that you fast for 2 meals and then make an offering/donation that goes toward helping those who may need assistance. In our Sunday meeting on that Sunday we also have the chance to bear testimony of our beliefs. Sometimes people get a little sidetracked and give a “thankamony” thanking those who may have helped them lately.) Every Sunday I go to 2 wards for sacrament and all the testimonies were great. In the 3rd ward, after the sacrament, we had a special musical number performed by the ... ward!! Hahaha, the primary children sang two songs then the RS and EQ sang "As sisters in Zion/Army of Helaman" it was way good. Some how, some one came up with blending two primary songs and that combined song together and it turned out great. It was definitely the highlight of the week.

Monday was tough, but it was okay, good days will come.

I hope that everyone had a great week. GO HAWKS and COUGS!!!! (Seattle Seahawks and BYU Cougars - just to be clear!)

Elder Park
The White African... in Utah

Extra: I asked him if they got that storm that did so much damage with flooding that had hit Arizona. He said “CRAZY STORM!!! LIB is worse though. It was fun to watch a little bit though.”

I also updated him on some ebola news coming out of Liberia, he said, ”makes me cry.”

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Elder Collin Park is serving a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He will be teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in Sierre Leone and Liberia (West Africa) from January 2013 until January 2015.